Few areas of research have raised as much interest and introspection, not to mention false hopes, as gene therapy. Indeed, few areas can have induced the editorial writers to wax quite so lyrical (Verma, 1994; Leiden, 1995; Blau et al., 1997). The possibility of using DNA as a therapeutic tool first became theoretically feasible as a result of the advances in recombinant DNA technology which ha...

It is widely agreed that the interaction possibilities in interactive narrative are limited by the current approach to dialog creation, which typically relies on teams of scriptwriters. This paper reports on experiments testing whether authorial leverage can be increased by methods for natural language generation of dialog in a story world called Heart of Shadows. Our experiments show that (1) ...

Future Maskless Lithography systems will require high throughput circuitry to interface to the writers. Previous works have demonstrated architectures for LZ decompression architectures to decrease chip pin count [1]. In this work we will compare compression done systolically and non-systolically at the circuit level. Furthermore, we analyze different techniques to get the data to the writers a...

The preparation of student teachers to be effective writing requires attention both their skills and personal confidence. When have confidence in themselves as writers strong writer identities, they are likely better placed develop identities own students. It is suggested secure identity contribute high self-efficacy. However, studies suggest often lack writers. Improving the quality school stu...

ID ('intelligent design') is not science, but a form of creationism; both are very different from the simple theological proposition that a divine Creator is responsible for the natural patterns and processes of the Universe. Its current version maintains that a 'Designer' must intervene miraculously to accomplish certain natural scientific events. The verdict in the 2005 case Kitzmiller, et al...

In the pursuit of a remedy for the poor spelling of dyslexic writers, a software system has been developed which features centrally a user model of the writer’s spelling error patterns. Dyslexic writers are poorly catered for by most spelling programs because of their diverse errors. In this system, Babel, a user model directs the search towards likely corrections considering the writer’s commo...

The “ten-year rule” suggests that it takes about 10 years of preparation to reach “expert” status. How long does it take, however, for someone to reach a level of creative greatness? Through an analysis of 215 contemporary fiction writers, we found that these writers took an average of 10.6 years between their first publication and their best publication, although there was a high degree of var...